
It also documents the social and personal characteristics of cheaters, their motives, where they are most likely to cheat, and when they are most likely to cheat but where the literature is less thorough is when it comes to documenting what the students do to cheat-that is, how they cheat. The literature on academic dishonesty provides a structural framework for understanding exactly what constitutes cheating. There is adequate consensus among researchers that cheating by college students is a pervasive phenomenon (Aiken, 1991 McCabe and Bowers, 1994 McCabe and Trevino, 1996 Spiller and Crown, 1995). Findings indicate that students manipulate variables such as the psychological and behavioral profiles of their professors, unwitting accomplices, technology, peers, spatial environments, and their own bodies, to negotiate the contingent intricacies and dialectics of academic dishonesty. Using in-depth narratives from 119 students enrolled in an introductory criminology class, this paper examines the variety of creative tactics that students use to cheat during in-class examinations. Previous studies of academic dishonesty have systematically identified the psychological and social variables correlated to cheating, but how students actually cheat has often been overlooked. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.How College Students Cheat On In-Class Examinations: Creativity, Strain, and Techniques of InnovationĮ-mail: is adequate consensus among researchers that cheating is widely practiced by students and poses a serious problem across college campuses.

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